Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 166. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. AR Didrachm (7.16 g, 6h). Pella mint. Lifetime issue, struck circa 354/3-349/8 BC. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / ΦIΛIΠ-ΠOY, rider, wearing petasos, raising right hand and holding reins with left, on horseback left; Δ below foreleg, facing head of Helios above groundline. Le Rider, Monnayage, p. 18, 4 (same dies); cf. Le Rider 123-37 (tetradrachms); cf. SNG ANS 362-4 (tetradrachms); SNG München -; SNG Alpha Bank -; SNG Saroglos -. Good VF. Well centered strike. Very rare denomination, the second known for this issue.